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JOSEPH H. COGBURN, F GAINESVILLE, GEORGl A.

FILING CABINET.

Application filed July 8,

receptacle for cards or sheets containing information, affording means for securing said cards or sheets in such a manner that all are securely housed and each one is readily accessible. The particular purpose for which my improved cabinet has been devised is to serve as a container for the series of sheets comprising my improved calculator, described in my pending application bearing Serial Number 487,971. While I find my cabinet especially desirable for this specific purpose, it is to be understood that it may be utilized for a variety of purposes, and while I have illustrated in the drawings filed herewith details of construction embodying certain specific forms of devices constructed in accordance with my invention, I do not consider my invention limited either to the particular use above referred to or to the specific embodiments illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter fully described, but refer for its scope to the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation partly in section of a detail.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a detail.

Fig. 5 is a side elevationof a detail.

Fig. 6 is a vertical section of a modified form.

Fig. 7 is a horizontal section of a detail of the modified form shown in Fig. 6, taken on line '77 of Fig. 6.

As illustrated in the drawings, my device is mounted upon a base plate 1 provided with an upstanding post 2, and the bottom 3 is provided with a centrally disposed sleeve 3 rotatably carried upon the post 2. Attached to each end of the bottom 3 are semi-circular end plates 4 having knobs 4. Each of the plates 4 is provided with a radial vertically disposed slot 5 in which slots 5 there is slidably mounted the dividing 1922. Serial No. 573,600.

wall 6 having a knob 7 upon its top. Suitably tapped into one of the end walls 4 in line with the wall 6 is sleeve 8 in which is carried a pin 9 having ahead 10 outside the sleeve 8. A spring 11 confined in the sleeve 8 tends to project the pin 9 into a holein the wall 6 and thus form a catch to hold the wall 6 in place in the slots 5 Each of the end walls 4 is provided with two slots 12, in which are slidably mounted card carriers 13. Each of these carriers 13 has projecting tongues 14 which extend into the slots 12 and serve to hold the carriers in place. Each carrier 13 has two upstanding side walls 15 and 16 between which extend the guide rods 17. Carried upon these guides 17 is the clamping plate 18 pressed by the screw-bolts 19. The cards 20 carried in my device and having suitable indextabs 20 are provided with extensions 21 to which the cards 20 are suitably hinged and these extensions 21, slotted to permit them to pass over the guide rods 17, are clamped between the walls 16 and the plate'18, spacers 22 be ing interposed between the, extensions 21.

At the outer corners of the end walls 4, I provide blocks 23 attached to the walls 4 by screws 24 and provided with curved slots 25 in which are carried the pintles 26 of wire hinges to which are attached the cover plates 27 which serve to cover and protect the cards 20.

In Figs. 6 and 7, I have indicated a form of my device having two different means for holding the cards. In this form the bottom 3 is provided with end walls 28 which are provided with slots 29 inwhich are carried the edges of leaves 30 of a'div'iding wall 31 which has a knob 32. The wall 31 is so designed that the leaves 30 are pressed apart by spring action and thus tend to hug the outer sides of the slots 29. The leaves 30 have flanges 30 resting upon the bottom 3 and held thereto by suitable fastenings 30'. Attached to each of the walls 28 on one side of the dividing wall 31 there is a block 33 having a series of slots 34 to receive the ends of wires upon which the cards 20 are attached. A strap 35 hinged to the wall 28 by a pin 36 serves to hold the wires in the slots 34, and a catch 37 hinged to the wall 28 by a pin 38 serves to hold the strap 35 upon the block 33. Attached to each or the walls 28, upon the other side of the dividing wall 31, there is a block 39 provided with holes 40 into which may be inserted the ends of the wires carrying the cards 20. The walls 28 are also provided with slots 5 in which may be slidably mounted the dividing wall 6 and slots 12 in which may be slidably mounted the card carriers 13.

From the foregoing description of the parts, the use of my device will be obvious. Cards 20 properly prepared with desired information and arranged in any desired order indicated by the index tabs 20 may be clamped in one of the carriers 13, which is inserted into my device by placing its tongues 1 in the slots 12 and allowing the carrier 13 to slide downwardly until it comes to rest in the position indicated in Fig. 2. In like manner a second carrier 13 may be provided with its charge of cards 20 and placed in the oppositeside of my device. When the dividing wall 6 is then placed in the slots 5 and rests upon the bottom 3, being fastened in position by the pin 9, the cards 20 ot the two sets will retain a substantially upright position resting against the wall. 6.

In my modified form of device, it will be seen that the method of mounting the cards just described may be used or each card may be placed in the receptacle independently and so any of the cards may be removed without disturbing any other card. In the second method of placing the cards the diverging leaves 30 serve as effective backs to retain the sets of cards in substantially upright position.

The covers 27 swung upwardly upon the pintles 26 serve to )lOlTQCt the cards.

When it is desired to inspect any one of the cards 20, the card may be selected by reference to its tab 20 and such cards as are in front of it are turned down along with the front cover 27, thus exposing the desired card to view. It will be notedthat both sides of the cards may be utilized as the back of each card is exposed to view when the card is swung down.

Since my calculator above referred to comprises two sets of sheets, viz: sheets bearing computations relative to compensation calculated according to the period of time involved, and sheets bearing computations relative to compensation calculated according to the amount of production, I have found my device providing carriers for two sets of sheets particularly useful to provide a receptacle for my calculator sheets. As the receptacle is readily rotated by use oi either of the knobs l it will be seen that any card in the receptacle may be quickly secured when desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a filing cabinet, the combination of a rotatable plate; end walls attached to said plate; a dividing wall slidably received between said end walls and resting on said plate; and sheet-carrying means mounted in said end walls on both sides of said dividing wall.

2. Ina filing cabinet, the combination of a rotatable plate; end walls attached to said plate; a dividing wall slidably received between said end walls and resting on said plate; sheet-carrying means mounted in said fit) end walls on both sides of said dividing wall; and cover-plates hingedly mounted in said end walls and adapted to cover sheets in said carrying means.

3. In a filing cabinet, the combination of a rotatable receptacle having end walls; a dividing wall slidably mounted in said end walls; and a plurality of sheet-carrying clamps slidably mounted in said end walls on both sides of said dividing wall.

4. In a filing cabinet, the combination of a rotatable plate; end walls attached to said plate and each provided with a plurality of slots; a dividing wall slidably received in one slot of each end wall and resting on said plate; a sheet carrier provided with end tongues, each tongue being slidably received in a slot of one of said end walls; and a second sheet carrier provided with end tongues, each tongue of said second carrier being slidably received in a slot of one of said end walls, said carriers being disposed on opposite sides of said dividing wall.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JOSEPH H. COGBURN. 

